He Created Us

I've always believed in God. Over the multiple decades of my life - perhaps I should say "many decades" - it has never occurred to me to not believe in Him. I don't have any empirical evidence to prove He exists; I just believe He does. I guess that's what faith is all about.

I also believe God is my creator, that I was created not evolved. Back in the day when I was going to college for the nth time, one of my professors kept bringing up the theory of evolution and how we all evolved from some pitiful cell that just happened to get a quirk in it to grow legs, arms, and a head with a brain in it. Well, she didn't really say it that way but that's how I pictured the process when she was talking. So, I bravely raised my hand and told her I didn't believe in evolution.

Now, this professor was typically a stoic, self-assured woman who was probably just a few years older than I was at the time. So, it was quite surprising to me to observe the change in her as the impact of my words struck her well-developed brain or should I say highly evolved brain just out of respect for her. Her mouth changed from a firmly composed line of confidence to a sloppy hole of astonishment. Obviously she was taken aback to say the least, but mostly she was shocked and told me so in no soft terms.

Without going into too much detail, let's just say she told me in front of my fellow students she couldn't believe someone in one of her master's level classes would be so stupid as to think evolution was subordinate to a myth such as creationism. We batted words back and forth about our respective beliefs until another student finally said she wasn't too sure she came from the same ancestor as monkeys either but could we please get back on topic. That ended the conversation.

I think of that brief encounter every once in a while and, despite the articles written by so-called informed scientists and possibly less informed members of the news media, I continue to believe in creation. I truly believe God created earth and all that's on and in it (including humans) in six days. All a person has to do to research this is open the Bible and read the first chapter of the first book, Genesis.

Why do I believe it? The answer is quite simple. Because He can.